A play about three badass women who collide and collude at a spa in New Mexico, and a barebones Chinese restaurant in Queens. Dangerous and hungry, their weapons and their passions bleed into each other. They speak the language of the outcast, rough and sexual, and fight to survive, and to love.
Supported in partnership with the Richenthal Foundation.
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY's plays include PRODIGAL SON, OUTSIDE MULLINGAR (Tony Award nomination), DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, SAVAGE IN LIMBO, ITALIAN-AMERICAN RECONCILIATION, WELCOME TO THE MOON, FOUR DOGS AND A BONE, DIRTY STORY, DEFIANCE, BEGGARS IN THE HOUSE OF PLENTY, and BROOKLYN LAUNDRY. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play DOUBT, he received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the arena of screenwriting, he has ten films to his credit, most recently WILD MOUNTAIN THYME, with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken. His film of DOUBT, which he also directed and which starred Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other screen credits include FIVE CORNERS (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), ALIVE, JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO (which he also directed), and LIVE FROM BAGHDAD for HBO (Emmy nomination). For his script of MOONSTRUCK, he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2009, the Writers Guild of America honored Mr. Shanley with the Lifetime Achievement in Writing Award.